Safetypin package



c July 28, 1936. G. P. PETERSON 2,048,753

' SAFETYPIN PACKAGE Filed April 3, 1934 INVENTOR I B Y i I I A ATTOR EYS' Patented July 28, 1936 ATENT OFFICE SAFETYPIN PACKAGE- Gunnard P. Peterson, Naugatuck, Conn., as-

signor to The Risdon Manufacturing Company, a corporation of Connecticut Application April 3, 1934, Serial No. 718,762

6 Claims.

The invention is an improved display package for safety pins, its object being to provide a 10W cost, attractive and saleable package which, while being exceptionally compact with reference to the number of safety pins held, will also lie flat in the sales tray without tangling with other packages, and at the same time afford a suitably large space for carrying advertising or other inscriptions, and more especially, the purpose is to organize a package of the kind indicated, so that the holder member thereof on which the advertising inscription is placed, will be independently useful so that it will continue to function as an advertising medium even after the pins have been used up, and the device is no longer a package. The invention thus serves not merely to sell the safety pins in an attractive form but also to perpetuate the advertising initially used therewith.

To these and other ends, the invention consists in assembling the safety pins, closed, on a bar form holder, such holder having such shape and being otherwise so organized as to constitute a useful article independently of the pins, as for example, a ruler or scale. The drawing illustrates an example of the invention, Fig. 1 being a plan view of the preferred form, Figs. 2 and 3, respectively, sections on line 11-11 of Fig. 1.

The bar form holder is most conveniently made of a strip of sheet metal 1, although it may be of any other rigid or semi-rigid material. It is desirably about three-quarters of an inch wide and six inches long and its thickness is preferably such as will cause it to occupy and substantially fill the whole of the space between the limbs of the safety pins (closed) or of the smallest size of pins in the assemblage. Preferably this dimension of thickness is produced by giving the metal 40 strip a suitable cross sectional curvature, as

indicated in Fig. 2.

The inscriptions on the bar may include scale markings along one or both edges, as indicated, and also advertising matter or other information, the space being ample.

Near each of its ends the bar or scale is formed with an upstruck portion or protuberance 2, shown as a strap cut out of the metal and punched up to form an eye, the purpose of these protuberances, 2, being to form guard means to keep the safety pins from sliding or falling off the end or ends, but their location and dimension are such that the pins can be forced or sprung over them for removal when desired.

When the package includes assorted sizes, the

safety pins are assembled in groups, the smaller sized group or. groups, indicated at 3, being at the ends of the bar and retained thereon by the guards just mentioned and the next larger sized group or groups, indicated at 4, being arranged intermediately of them and the largest sized group 5, being in the middle. The several groups may, if desired, be separated from each other by guard means similar to that indicated at 2, but any means of preserving the group relation will suflice. As illustrated in the drawing, the intermediate groups 4 are separated from the smaller or end groups by means of the upstruck eyes 6 and by having one or more of the pins of such groups pinned through these eyes. Further 15 means of preserving the group relation may consist of the safety pins 1 which are cross-pinned respectively through all of the pins of each group.

With the pins thus strung and retained on the bar or holder the advertising inscription will be 20 plainly visible through or alongside the pins according to the shape or width of the bar. Any of the pins can be quickly removed by opening them, or the smaller pins can be pushed 01f the end of the bar without opening them, and when all have been removed the bar remains as a ruler, scale or straight-edge and as such constitutes a permanent carrier for the advertisement. Thus the package is doubly useful in that it forms a compact non-tangling unit for display and sales purposes as well as a permanently useful article, both of which features promote its saleability.

I claim:

1. A safety pin package and advertising device comprising a strip or body of rigid or semi-rigid sheet material provided with means to serve a first function of carrying an advertising inscription, said means consisting of one of the surfaces of said body having said inscription upon it; and 40 provided with means to serve a second function of holding an assemblage of safety pins strung upon said body, said latter means comprising struckup members on said body removably confining the pins thereon in position not obscuring said in- 5 scription so as to make it illegible; and provided with means to serve a third and continuing function different from either of the first or second functions, whereby when the pins have been used up the advertising inscription will be borne on a useful article.

2. A safety pin package and advertising device comprising a holder in the form of a strip of stiff sheet material with a straight edge with scale-markings thereon, a guard struck up from 2 such strip at each end thereof, an assemblage of safety pins embracing said strip and confined between said guards, and advertising matter carried on the strip visible through or between the safety pins.

3. A display package for safety pins having the pins strung in groups upon and around a bar member with certain groups located on the bar adjacent its ends and removably retained from sliding off of the ends, another group or groups being intermediate of the smaller groups, and means for preserving the group relation of all of the pins, said bar having a surface visible through and between the pins adapted to carry indicia and having a straight edge provided with scale markings, and being otherwise formed and adapted to function as a scale or ruler after its function. as a holder for safety pins has terminated.

4. A display package for safety pins consisting of a straight bar member, having an edge with scale markings thereon whereby said member by itself constitutes a scale or ruler, an assemblage of safety pins strung upon said member and means formed on said member for retaining the safety pins against sliding off the end of said member.

5. A safety pin package consisting of a ruler or scale provided with opposite straight edges and one or more eyes formed thereon between said edges and an assemblage of safety pins strung upon and embracing said ruler,-some of said pins being also pinned through said eyes.

6. A safety pin package consisting of a holder in the form of a transversely curved strip of metal or like rigid material, safety pins strung upon said strip, the width and effective thickness of said strip due to its curvature being such as to occupy substantially the whole of the space between the limbs of said safety pins, laterally as well as longitudinally, and means for releasably guarding the pins from sliding off the ends of the strip.

GUNNARD P. PETERSON. 

